Standing from left to right: ground maintenance officer Lt. Lewis, and radar counter-measure officer Lt. Kneeling from left to right: radar operator Sgt. “Thanks to our extra speed – we were at 155 miles an hour – the plane lifted off easily and climbed steadily.” “I held firm until we were a little more than 100 feet from the end of the pavement,” Tibbets said. Tibbets was the boss, but another figure, Navy Capt.
“Deak” Parsons, was in some sense the leader of the world’s first atomic bomb run.
